{"id":17665,"date":"2014-05-29T00:53:09","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T04:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=17665"},"modified":"2014-05-29T00:54:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T04:54:30","slug":"remembering-maya-angelou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/29\/remembering-maya-angelou\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Maya Angelou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65767546@N08\/8449738207\" title=\"Maya Angelou visits YCP! 2\/4\/13 by York College ISLGP, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8327\/8449738207_7d3c5f83ae_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Maya Angelou visits YCP! 2\/4\/13\" hspace=\"15\" vspace=\"6\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/a>Poet and author Maya Angelou died Wednesday, May 28, in her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Angelou is considered one of the finest poets of her generation. In addition, she  authored several books chronicling her youth and adolescence, including&nbsp;<em>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Find related web resources and lesson plans on <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/xndBH\" title=\"Maya Angelou was born on April 4, 1928.\" target=\"_blank\">Angelou on the ReadWriteThink calendar entry<\/a> for her birthday. For excerpts from an interview with Angelou, consider sharing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/05\/28\/316707321\/fresh-air-remembers-poet-and-memoirist-maya-angelou\" title=\"&lsquo;Fresh Air&rsquo; Remembers Poet And Memoirist Maya Angelou\" target=\"_blank\">&lsquo;Fresh Air&rsquo; Remembers Poet And Memoirist Maya Angelou<\/a> with students.<\/p>\n<p>A simple way to remember Angelou in your classroom this week is to ask students to explore some resources about the author and then use one of ReadWriteThink&rsquo;s interactives or mobile apps to write about her: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read biographical information about  Angelou and write an Acrostic Poem with <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/xnhxW\" title=\"Acrostic Poem Interactive\" target=\"_blank\">the interactive tool<\/a> or with <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/xnhEi\" title=\"Acrostic Poems App\" target=\"_blank\">the mobile app<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Use the BioCube <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/xnhMh\" title=\"BioCube interactive\" target=\"_blank\">interactive<\/a>  to record information about Angelou&rsquo;s life.<\/li>\n<li>Work with text from Angelou&rsquo;s writing or poetry to compose found poems with the Word Mover <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/xnhX4\" title=\"Word Mover interactive\" target=\"_blank\">interactive<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/xni1g\" title=\"Word Mover mobile app\" target=\"_blank\">mobile app<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>Create a Timeline of significant events in Angelou&rsquo;s life with the <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/xnihv\" title=\"Timeline Interactive\" target=\"_blank\">interactive<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/ow.ly\/xnika\" title=\"Timeline Mobile App\" target=\"_blank\">mobile app<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/65767546@N08\/8449738207\" title=\"Maya Angelou visits YCP! 2\/4\/13 by York College ISLGP, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\">Maya Angelou visits YCP! 2\/4\/13 by York College ISLGP, on Flickr<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poet and author Maya Angelou died Wednesday, May 28, in her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Angelou is considered one of the finest poets of her generation. In addition, she authored several books chronicling her youth and adolescence, including&nbsp;I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Find related web resources and lesson plans on Angelou on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,5],"tags":[219,380,379,386],"class_list":["post-17665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classroom-activity","category-readwritethink","tag-maya-angelou","tag-memoir","tag-poems","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-4AV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17667,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17665\/revisions\/17667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}